How to Deal With Anger {a devotional}
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Proverbs 16:32.
How
Satan exults when he is enabled to set the soul into a white heat of
anger! A glance, a gesture, an intonation, may be seized upon and used,
as the arrow of Satan, to wound and poison the heart that is open to
receive it.
When one once gives place to an angry spirit he is just as much intoxicated as the man who has put the glass to his lips.
Christ
treats anger as murder.... Passionate words are a savor of death unto
death. He who utters them is not cooperating with God to save his fellow
man. In heaven this wicked railing is placed in the same list as common
swearing. While hatred is cherished in the soul there is not one iota
of the love of God there.
When
you feel an angry spirit arising, take firm hold of Jesus Christ by
faith. Utter no word. Danger lies in the utterance of a single word when
you are angry, for a volley of passionate utterances will follow....
The man who gives way to folly in speaking passionate words, bears false
witness; for he is never just. He exaggerates every defect he thinks he
sees; he is too blind and unreasonable to be convinced of his madness.
He transgresses the commandments of God, and his imagination is
perverted by the inspiration of Satan. He knows not what he is doing.
Blind and deaf, he permits Satan to take the helm and guide him wherever
he pleases. The door is then thrown open to malice, to envy, and to
evil surmisings, and the poor victim is borne helplessly on.... But
there is hope while the hours of probation linger, through the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ....
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